14s Media
Louis Snaith
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1. Emma Peel can represent women in society. She has more of a role in society because of her fashion and how she helps John Steed with their missions, even though John Steed is more powerful. Emma Peel is definitely more recognized in society, they both have individual scenes, where Peel goes to the school and Steed to the airfield. They both find information on the case, and they both rely on each other.
2. Emma Peel represents it to become more equal, how she is a main character and is a women. She was also wearing the 60s fashion, wearing catsuits, and this was a first for women to wear such a variety of clothing which was quite revealing. And this wouldn't be acceptable 10 years ago, so she represents women becoming more accepted. 3. Once the show aired in 1965 (the episode we watched) this was just a few years before the legalisation of LGBT consent, which can show that the producers couldn't have homosexual people in their show because it would create a lot of controversary. It's the same with black people or others who are mixed race. 4. Black people were still seen as different at the time and would have again created arguments, and since there weren't many shows at the time. They had to please their audience so they could get views. The Avengers had a rule to not have colored people in their show. 5. Steed represents the old wartime generation and Peele represents the young radical generation. Steed can be seen as the old wartime generation because when he investigates the air field, he salutes. Also he is very traditional with what he wears, also he acts very posh, and likes to get the job done. Emma Peele can be seen as the youth radical generation because of her fashion, she wears some crazy outfits. Also her fencing scene how she challenges Steed to fence and how she gets coached by the more experience man on how to fence. Also when they find Smallwood dead, Peele is asking questions which Steed knows the answers to. 6. The social anxieties of the Cold War link to the episode because in the episode these people were imposters who took over a small town un-detected. And people thought that that was happening where there were secret workers who were actually spies, so the imposters in the show can represent communist in the Cold War. And how their plan was to have it spread. 7. Firstly, they are featured in almost all scenes, and they share their thoughts with the audience and we follow them mainly through the episode, where as we don't know what the towns people are always doing because there aren't many shots of them. Also music is used when Peel and Steed chase down the townspeople, like in the sewers. Also Steed's and Peel's have props which create humor to the audience, like Steed's gadgets: the hat and the full English tea set. This makes the audience like Steed and Peel more. We don't know much about the townspeople, they know more than us, they have basic outfits and are very secretive so we can't sympathize with them at all.
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